The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-06
crushing the worshipsrs - grapes are

crushing tho worshipers - grapes are
mashed in wine-press.
Then there are boys In establishments
who are ruined-in prosperous estl blish.
ments-ruincd by their lack Of compensa'
ton. In how many prosperous stores it
has been for the last twenty years that
boys were given just enough money to
learn them how to steal! Some were
seized upon by the police. The vast ma
jority Of instances were not known. Tho
head Of the firm asked:
'Where is George nowi'
20, he isn't here any more"
A lad might better starve to death on .
blasted heath than take one cent from his
employer. Woe be to that employer who
unnecessarily puts a temptation In boys
way. There have been great establish.
ments in these cities building marble
palaces, their owners dying worth mill
ions and millions and millions, who made
q vast amount Of their estate out OF the
blood, and muscle, aud nerve Of half.paid
clerks. Such men as-wcll, will not
mention any name. But rean men who
have gathered up vast estates at the ex.
pense Of the people who were ground
under their heel
'Oh," say such merchants, 'if you don't
like it here, then go and get q better
place."
As much as TO say:
'Ive got you in my grip. and mean to
hold you; YOU can't get any other place"
o, what contrast we see between such
men and those Christian merchants OF
Brooklyn and New York who to-day are
sympathetic with their c'erks-when they
pay the salary, acting in this way:
This salary that give you is not al
my interest in you. You are an Immortal
man; you are an immortal woman; am
interested in your present and your ever
lasting welfare; want you to understand
that if am little higher up in this
store, am beside you in Christian SYM
pathy."
Go back forty years to Arthur Happens
store in New York-a man whose worst
enemies never questioned his honesty.
Every morning, he brought all the
clerks, and the accountants, and the
weighers into a room for dcvotions
They sang. They prayed. The,
cxhOrted. On Monday morning the clerks
were asked where they had attended
church on the previous day, and what the
sermons were about. 1t must have
sounded strangely, that voice of praise
along the streets where the devotees of
mammon were counting their golden
beads. You say Arthur Tappen failed.
Yes, he was unfortunate, like great
many coed men; but I understand he met
| all his obligations before he left this
world, and know that he died in the
| peace of the gospel. and that he is before
| the throne of Goi to-day -forcver blessed.
| If that be failing, wish that you may all
| fail There are great many young men
in this city-yca, in this housewife want
| q word of encouragement, Christian en-
| enlargement One smile of good cheer
would be worth more to them tomorrow
| morning in their places of business thar
present of 81 1000 ten years hence.
q. l RENE mber the apprehension and
the trcmor OF entering a profession. re
member very well the man who greeted
me in the ecclesiastical court with the tin
ends of the long fingers of the left hand |;
and remember the other man who toOS
| nv hand i'm both of his ana said:
'GOd bless you, my brother; you have
| entered glorious profession; be faithful
! to God and he will see you through
Why. / feel this minute the thrill of that
hands baking. though the man who gave
| me the Christian grip has been in Heaven
twenty-five years There are old men TO.
day who can look back to forty years ago,
| when some one sail IL kind wore to them.
Now, old men, pay back what you
got then. 1t is great art for old
men TO be able to encourage the
young. There are many young people in
our cities who have come from inland
counties of our own State, from the gran
tie hills of the North, from the savaunals
of the South. from the prairics OF the
West. They are here to get their fort.
une. They are IN boarding-houses where
every body seems to be thinking Of him
self. They want companionship, and they
want Christian encouragement. Give il
to them.
Ny word is to all clerks in this house:
Be mightier than your temptations. =
Sandwich Islander used to think when he
slew an enemy al the strength of that
enemy came into his own right arm And
I have to tell you that every misfortune
YOU conquer is 50 much a ldcd to your
moral power. With omnipo;cnce for a
lever and the throne of God for n
fulcrum, YOU can movc earth and
Heaven. While there are other young
men putting the cup of sin to their lips
stoop down and drink cut of the fountain.
of God, and you will rise up strong to
thresh the mountains. The ancients used
to think that pearls were fallen raindrops
which, touching the surface of the sea,
hardened into gems, then dropped to the
bottom. have to tell you to-day that
storms of trial have showercl imperish.
able pearls into many young mans lap
.. young man! while You have goods to
sell. remember you have soul to save
In hos pital a Christian captain, wound.
| ed few days before. got dclirious. and in
the midnight hour he srrang out on the
floor of the hospital, thinking he was in
the bat: lie. CRYING:
.Come on, boys! Forward. Charger
All! he was only battling the specters
of his own brain. But it is nc imaginary
| conflict into which call you, young man.
to-day. There are ten thousand spiritual
foes that would capture you In the name
of God up and at them. After the last
store has been closed, after the last bank
has gone down, after the shufTl, of the
quick feet on the custom-house steps has
stopped, after the long line of merchant
men on the sea have taken sail or fame,
after Brooklyn a.d New York and London
and Vienna have gone down into the grave
where Thebes and b. bylon and Tyre Law
buried. after the great fire bells of the
Jud gment Day have tollad at the burn in g
of a world on that day, all the affairs If
the banking-houses and stores will ccme
Up for inspection.
o, what an opening Of account books |!
Side by side, the clerks and the men who
employed them-the people who owned
thread-and-neesle stores on the ssme
footing with the Stewards, and the bella
nos, and the Abbotts. and the Barir gs
Every invoice made o~t-all the labels Of
goods, all certificates of stock, all lists of
prices, all private marks of the firm, now